Word: detailism
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...Most likely [2 a.m. party hours] would have no impact considering there are already detail officers at parties,” Catalano said...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out; 2. doing work; or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...deeply disliked the sight of her own face and didn't exactly radiate self-confidence. She didn't radiate much of anything, except perhaps a conviction that she looked 50 and would never be as happy or as attractive as Lisa, her bikini-contest-winning kid sister. The only detail May remembers about Stacey's visit to his shop that day is that she ordered a set of floor mats and never returned to pick them...
Over time Currin has gone through a succession of styles, from the deliberately slapdash to an ever more fine-grained illusionism, the kind that reports to the eye in detail about the clammy surface of a raw turkey or the plush of a fur jacket. But at every turn, his chief subject has been women, sometimes silky and creamy, sometimes wrinkled and brittle, sometimes with stupendous, impossible breasts...
...voters who knew about Edwards’ platform did not seem to mind that he was a Southerner, a detail that may become important in a crowded Democratic field made up of mostly Northeasterners...